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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Topics

Reading Cow Pleasure Must Sort Mere

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

Love Care Long Television Acting

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

Change Myself Day Every Day Choice

Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.

Stanley Hauerwas

God Gift Reality Name Say Never

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

Best Me Partner Think Generation

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Now Something Really Put

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

Coffee Money Me Smoke Starbucks Any

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

Monica Bellucci

Work Beauty Youth Evil You Born

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

Home Flowers Friends Nobody Silver

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Government Healthcare Way Office

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Man Mind Doing Long Late Unknown

I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.

Music Respect Country Student Singer

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

Best People Friends Modern Myth

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